Lecture Series: Transformation of Political Actors - Who Represents the City, Who Represents the Country?

The lecture series "Transformations and the Urban-Rural Relationship (in Northern Hesse)" focuses on different facets of the socio-ecological turnaround, including the region of Northern Hesse. Every week, two speakers from science and practice will give lectures and discuss with each other. One of the lectures will be devoted to a review of the general state of knowledge on individual aspects of the transformation. The second lecture will focus on North Hesse and discuss the challenges arising from the socio-ecological transformation for the region. The new urban-rural conflicts associated with the expansion of renewable energies, the challenges facing the North Hessian economy and the fact that the transformation processes not only have an economic side, but also change the North Hessian party and media landscape will be elaborated.

Organization: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schroeder, Head of the Department Political System of the FRG - Statehood in Transition

Topic on 06.12.2022: Transformation of political actors - Who represents the city, who represents the country?
Urban centers and rural areas are confronted in different ways with the challenges of socio-ecological transformation. So what are the resulting interests of urban centers, medium-sized cities and rural regions in Germany, and by which actors are these often divergent interests represented to policy makers at the state and federal level and to the European Union? In this context, the way in which the urban-rural relationship will develop in the future depends to a large extent on the extent to which the interests of metropolitan areas or peripheral regions are taken into account in the political decision-making process.

Speakers: Prof. Dr. Aiko Wagner (FU Berlin), Bishop Dr. Beate Hofmann (Evangelical Church of Kurhessen Waldeck)